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Concerning the Impending Finals and Advertising Justice

December 4, 2006 2:16 AM

ot much is going on right now. Finals are about to kick into full gear--the last day of classes is Wednesday. I don't have a final for a little under two weeks, and I don't have my last final for a little under three weeks. I'm not flying home until the 23rd. That's ok, though. I'd rather take it relatively easy and give myself the time to really study than rush and be all stressed out.

Speaking of studying, that's been really tough lately. It's not that I don't care or that I don't want to do well, it's just that the motivation has been lacking for some reason. It'll kick into gear soon enough, though. Tonight, after watching the movie Deja Vu (which was ok, but nothing special) with Cole and Kristin, I actually came home and did some reading.

Anyway, I'm sure I'll do fine this semester, so I'm not really too worried about it at all.

TV-related rant . . .

I like the show Monk on USA. I've only seen it a few times, but I think it's pretty funny and good. For those of you who haven't seen it, the basic premise of the show is that the main character, Monk, is an ex-cop who now runs his own detective agency or something. The twist is that Monk, while a Sherlock Holmes-level investigative genius, is ridiculously obsessive compulsive and, really, kinda wussy. Still, he comes off as just quirky enough to be interesting without being creepy. Also, co-star Traylor Howard, although only about a 3 or 4 on the Hollywood scale, is still pretty friggin' cute.

Anyway, the show's currently promoting what I think is the most retarded idea I've ever heard. Posing the question "what's better, black and white or color," USA is going to run an episode all in black and white. Then, immediately thereafter, they're going to run the exact same episode in color. Then, people will be allowed to vote for which one they liked more. What the fuck? I'm sorry, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Why the fuck would anyone prefer some stupid-looking black and white episode? And why would anyone stick around for two hours to watch the exact same episode?

I honestly can't think of a way of expressing how incredibly stupid I think this idea is. Someone should be shot.

That reminds me of something. I wish there was someone in charge of disciplining stupid ad executives. And I wish that someone was me. For example, the guys who dreamed up this black and white v. color thing would get called into my office, whereupon I would verbally berate them before tying them down and forcing them to watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended editions, of course) first in black and white, then in technicolor, then full modern color (total run time: approx. 42 hours). Of course, they wouldn't be allowed to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. Then, at the end, they'd have to vote for which version was their favorite, and any of them that didn't pick the full color version would have to repeat the process until they got it right.

Don't even get me started on what I would do to the idiots behind the Capital One credit card ads.


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